Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fear this whole thing is a piece of idiocy. I'm afraid I can't explain why there was a consul, why there was microfilm, why there were three people on the project, why two of them were at Los Alamos...
...Vietnamese Minister for Information, Le Thang, was helpfully trying to explain the situation in Indo-China as he saw it. "The trouble here," he said, "is that the average Vietnamese doesn't want the U.S. to come in because he's afraid of atomic bombs. He doesn't want the Communists because he's afraid of China. He doesn't want the French to stay because they're colonialists. He wants a strong Vietnamese government, but not mobilization. He doesn't want elections because the Communists might...
...turn a respectable fast buck? Most doctors are hard put to diagnose their own professional motives. In a collection of essays and excerpts, Dr. Noah D. Fabricant, himself a noted Chicago ear, nose and throat specialist, lets 50 of the world's best-known doctors and ex-doctors explain Why We Became Doctors (Grune & Stratton; $3.75). The medical men who are most articulate about their choice generally have achieved equal or greater fame as writers. Among the contributions...
...Chagall's current canvases, painted over the past seven years, are devoted to Paris themes. As usual, he refuses to explain any of them. Says Chagall: "In art you can't talk about theories, because art's a thing of life into which enter problems of love and death. One must be an arch-genius, and still more, to pretend to give theories. Cezanne launched theories, and Cezanne was almost that arch-genius. What is left today after 50 years-his theories...
...meeting in the U.S., would subject the Episcopal Church to especially searching scrutiny by critical Christians from other lands. The slightest appearance of condoning racial segregation would cast a blight on Episcopalianism in their eyes. Without quite calling an international spade a spade, Bishop Sherrill did his best to explain: "I am convinced that on both the international and the national level the scene has altered radically . . . We live in a time of crisis ... I am certain that the witness of our church must be so clear that it need not be explained ..." But hearty, Kentucky-born Bishop Quin, whose...